If you were dying to learn about Arduinos last September, the place to be would have been Maker Faire, at the Electronics Stage, where my colleague Andrew Terranova taught four crowds of visitors what those handy microcontrollers were all about.
Brave the wintery conditions in style with this thoughtful tutorial for making simple moccasins with canvas gaiters from Instructables user Antagonizer.
Ever heard of Arduino? This Primer will help you get started with Arduino and a little bit of coding.
Everything is way too disposable these days so I appreciate a tutorial that shows us how to lengthen the lives of products we already have. Instead of throwing out your old scissors, make them like new again with Haley’s simple steps. Via The Zen of Making
Stitch up a charming solution for your on-the-go mending needs with an English paper piecing sewing kit!
Like gadgets and consumer electronics? Good with a video camera? We want to hear from you. As part of our coverage of 2014 International CES, we’re looking for someone on the ground in Las Vegas who can produce quick videos of exhibits and stand-up commentary and interviews with MAKE editors.
Happen to have any spheres with mirrored surfaces lying around? If so, you can make your own sphere inversion fractals, as today’s gallery of pictures shows. Here’s the basic idea: take three different-colored reflecting balls and arrange them so that each just kisses both of the other two.
